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I want to create a random string of length n that is made up of characters and integers. Is there a function in rails or ruby that allows me to do this? Thank you my friend :-). John Kopanas http://www.kopanas.com ===================================================================== http://www.soen.info - source of the freshest software engineering information on the net

Thanks to the R creators for such a great statistical system. Thanks to the R help list, I have (finally) gotten far enough in R to have a question I hope to be worth posting. I'm using the recode function from John Fox's car package and have encountered some unexpected behavior. Consider the following example: ## Begin cut-and-paste example require( car ) set.seed(12345) nn <-